Books Quote by Carl Barks

I'm hopefully making the reader feel a lot about the characters and then about their own life.

— Jeffrey Eugenides

I used to say I wasn't interested in writing about characters.

— Emma Healey

Part of me becomes the characters I'm writing about. I think readers feel like they are there, the way I am, as a result.

— Louis Sachar

I don't have to live the lives of my characters to write about them. It's about really putting yourself in their shoes.

— Jodi Picoult

We are all potentially characters in a novel--with the difference that characters in a novel really get to live their lives to the full.

— Georges Simenon

I discovered that there was no difference between playing a real-life character and a fictional one.

— Parvathy

All of my characters are a little bit based on people I know in real life. You know when you do that you have…

— Meg Cabot

All of a sudden, I sort of started to feel that I was constrained by the characters as opposed to enjoying them. And that…

— Naomi Novik

I don't bring my life into a character at all.

— Joaquin Phoenix

I'm not a character in any of my books.

— Truman Capote

My characters - no, make that most characters - are seeking the shelter of narrative resolution, a place of quiet and grace.

— David Means

Remember, if you don't feel passionate about the characters and subject of your story, your readers won't either.

— Meg Cabot